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Whoa.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi started giggling uncontrollably today when speaking about the temporary one-year fix to O-Care. Barack Obama announced earlier that he would allow his peoples to keep their insurance plans for one year until the elections are over in 2014.
Pelosi was so excited about this she started giggling.Weird.

(snip)

Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Not so sure this can be fixed administratively, every one of those insurance companies also has to answer to State insurance commissions and auditors, who may not accept the Oministration's simple declination to enforce statutory law as quite the same thing as compliance with it.

Worse than Biden's giggling during the VP debate? This raises an important question: Just how crazy must a Democrat act in public before the DNC will pull the plug on them?

Originally Posted by DumbAss Tanker

Not so sure this can be fixed administratively, every one of those insurance companies also has to answer to State insurance commissions and auditors, who may not accept the Oministration's simple declination to enforce statutory law as quite the same thing as compliance with it.

Not only can't it be fixed administratively, but it will make it worse. Obama's proclamation does not have any legal authority behind it, since only congress can amend the law, so the whole thing is a sham, but several states have refused to comply with it anyway, and the insurers are freaking out because they now have to cancel their cancellations. He's thrown the entire healthcare system into chaos.

Not only can't it be fixed administratively, but it will make it worse. Obama's proclamation does not have any legal authority behind it, since only congress can amend the law, so the whole thing is a sham, but several states have refused to comply with it anyway, and the insurers are freaking out because they now have to cancel their cancellations. He's thrown the entire healthcare system into chaos.

Apparently the requires the termination of 'Grandfathered' policies the have 'Major changes,' and then the HHS regulations defined 'Major changes' as any alteration no matter how trivial. There is a small technical window for an administrative fix but it would legally require an actual regulatory change with puclication, notice, public comment, and a final rule, all of which would eat up so much of 2014 (Especially given the torpid HHS bureaucracy) before it went into effect, only to be very shortly superseded by the 2014 deadline.